GREG P. GRIFFIN GREGPGRIFFIN PhD candidate, The University of Texas at Austin [email protected]Associate Research Scientist, Texas A&M Transportation Institue JANUARY 2019 THE GEOGRAPHY AND EQUITY OF CROWDSOURCED PUBLIC PARTICIPATION FOR ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION PLANNING Transportation Research Board Event 1322, What Crowdsourcing and Social Media Tell Us About Public Engagement: Recent Research
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• Austin staff take tablets to in-person meetings, bridging methods.
Interview Results
Crowdsourcing is “overall positive”, but “requires transportation professional[s to] have a strong understanding of the limitations as to the crowd they are sourcing to make sure that those populations that lack access to tools that crowdsourcing relies on are not underrepresented in the decisions.”
Implications for Megaregions:
Geographic Scale• Crowdsourcing
methods may be
needed to reach
vast areas
Image: FHWA
Implications for Megaregions:
Co-production• people can contribute
knowledge about specific
topics, doing some of the
planning work
Implications for Megaregions:
Multi-method participation• All-of-the-above
approach requires real resources
• Plan, budget, and advocate…then implement!
Image: CAMPO
Acknowledgements
• TRB Public Involvement Committee (ADA60) anonymous reviewers
• Cooperative Mobility for Competitive Megaregions University UTC (CM2)
• Data providers Lena Reese & Kelly Porter from CAMPO, and Ride Report.